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 3. Subject-entry, cross-references, and classed subject table (for C and E).

4. Form-entry (for F).

5. Giving edition and imprint, with notes when necessary (for G).

6. Notes (for H).

(1) Mr. Cutter gives elaborate rules for the selection of author-headings, which do not at present concern us.

(2) The title-entry has for its heading, as a rule, the first word of the title, with suppression of the article, or else some striking word ("catchword") which is likely to remain in the reader's memory.

(3) "In a dictionary-catalogue some books can- not profitably have subject-entry, because they not only have no one subject, but do not even belong to any class of subject. Enter a work under its subject-heading, not under the heading of a class which includes that subject." Thus a book on Cats under Cat, not Domestic Animals or Zoology. Under the more comprehensive headings, however, there will be cross-references to the specific headings.

(4) The scope of the form-entries appear from Mr. Cutter's rule, "Make a form-entry for collections of works in any form of literature." The possibility is contemplated of giving references under Poetry, Drama, or Fiction to every entry of books of that kind, but only the largest dictionary- catalogues attempt this. Another rule under this division seems rather superfluous, "Make a form-entry for single works in the rarer literatures,